Website Review: wicked.com

Roger T. Pipe sends along this review of wicked.com…

(please let us know if this kind of thing is something you’d like to see more of…)

Anyone familiar with adult movies in the past two decades knows exactly what to expect from anything with the Wicked name on it. They are one of the leading producers of high end adult entertainment featuring some of the most beautiful stars and the most passionate sex scenes. www.Wicked.com delivers the same quality that fans expect from their movies. The site offers weekly updates and a huge collection of scenes as well as full movies for your viewing pleasure.

Currently housing over 3,750 scenes and 1,650 different stars, it is a massive collection of high end erotica with something for everyone. All of your favorite Wicked girls are here. From the current crop including Stormy Daniels, Kaylani Lei and jessica drake to classic Wicked contract stars like Stephanie Swift, Devinn Lane, Jenna Jameson and my personal favorite, Serenity.

In addition to the contract starlets, www.Wicked.com boasts a huge collection of scenes from other top stars past and present. You can pretty much pick a girl and find a collection of scenes. From Asa Akira, Andy San Dimas, Aurora Snow, Kristina Rose and Tori Black to Asia Carrera, Amber Lynn, Alicia Rio, Kaitlyn Ashley and Taylor St. Clair and all kinds of girls in between, this site is a fantastic collection of the hottest porn stars of the last twenty years. In addition to the star power, big budget movies and hot scenes available, www.Wicked.com also offers exclusive behind the scenes looks at their movies and the stars. Unique BTS clips and red carpet reels are part of the fun. Featuring unparalleled star power, excellent video quality and a huge collection of Wicked scenes and movies, membership to www.Wicked.com is like having your own personal Wicked Pictures library.

SITE BREAKDOWN

Home

Navigating www.Wicked.com is fairly simple thanks to a solid design. There is a toolbar across the top of the page and a good deal of new material right on the main page at all time. Just below the toolbar is a large photo of “Girl of the Week” (Gracie Glam right now) and a list of upcoming additions to the site.

Working down the main page we get “Scenes”, “Movies” and “Girls” in sortable thumbnail format. The twelve most recent are featured, but you can also change it up to view the twelve most viewed or most popular scenes, movies or girls. They are then viewable in pages of fifteen with thumbnails, add date, title or star name, views and rating. All of these also feature direct links to the individual update pages.

The main page is easy to use, but if you prefer the toolbar, it is really well laid out.

Scenes

Shown 15 per page, scenes may be viewed by most recent, most viewed or most liked order. As of today (7/27/11) there are 2,983 scenes onWicked.com. They go back a long way and feature more porn stars than any of us would care to count. Individual scene pages feature a huge screen shots that is also one-click screaming of that entire scene. There is basic information provided including star name, add date and the title of the movie the scene was pulled from. (With an easy link to view to entire movie.) There are links to photo galleries as well and the option to download the scenes. Video streams at 240, 480 or 720p. They download at HD720, DVD or iPod quality. Photos are available in gallery or zip format.

Movies

Full movies are displayed 20 per page with a box cover shot, add date, views and rating displayed. www.Wicked.com features really new Wicked titles. As of today (7/27/11) the most recent titles are “Teacher’s Pet”, “Cougars Take it Black” and “Eternal” which are brand new titles to DVD. No real lag time here. There are currently 518 full movies available to view any time you want. Movie update pages feature a large screen shot that serves as a one-lick streaming option. Movies may be watched as a whole or split into scenes. Video streams at 240, 480 or 720p. They download at HD720, DVD or iPod quality. Photos are available in gallery or zip format.

This is pretty much the Wicked collection all at your fingertips. (Though I noticed that the movie I wrote for them, Guilty Pleasures, is not included.) All of their lines are represented here as well. There are titles from the couples-oriented Wicked Passions line. Comedies like “Boobwatch” and “Rocki Whore Picture Show” are easy to find. Their award winners like “Speed”, “3 Days in June” and “2040? are also available. If you prefer older titles, there are tons of those. The Jenna Jameson and Serenity era are well represented with some classic movies “Lost Angels”, “Conquest”, “Indigo Delta” and “Hell on Heels.” They even go back further than this with some Shyla LaVaeaux and Teri Weigel movies. If you are a fan of Wicked movies, this collection is impossible to beat.

Girls

Every girl features on www.Wicked.com has her own page. This makes it much easier to find material form the women you are looking for. Girls are shown 15 at a time with large pictures, number of scenes and ratings displayed. By default the girls are listed by most active. (jessica drake with 170 scenes) but you can also sort by most liked (also Ms. Drake with Kirsten Price in second place). Exclusive girls get their own sort and you can always sort through by first letter in an alphabetical sort. With over sixteen hundred model pages a text search would be really helpful.

Model pages feature a nice picture and many feature a text bio. Some of them are quite extensive and interesting while others are sketches. Every scene and movie featuring the actress is displayed in an easy to use system. Users can “like” a girl to improve her rating and leave comments on her board as well.

Bonus Videos

In addition to all of the hardcore action on Wicked.com there are loads of special video features to enjoy. BTS reels make a large portion of this material. Take a look behind the scenes at the making of some of Wicked’s biggest features. Red Carpet and Event videos are also featured. You can take a look at the Wicked Girls as they strut their stuff at movie premiers and award shows.

There are also bonus feeds here. They are lower quality video streams covering every niche you can imagine. There are almost fifty thousand scenes available. You can search around here and find plenty of good stuff. It isn’t quite Wicked quality, but it’s free and offers something different.

COST

There are two membership options for Wicked.com plus a 2 Day Trial:

(If you take the trial membership, read the fine print — memberships that begin as trials renew at $39.00 per month, not the lesser monthly rate…)

OVERALL: 98 of 100.

Models: 20 of 20 (Best Girls in the Biz Present & Past)
Quality of Content : 18 of 20 (Technically solid, sexually hot)
Quantity of Content: 20 of 20 (Weekly Updates, Huge Catalog)
Ease of Use: 17 of 20 (Easy to use, Great Viewing Options)
Niche Appeal: 20 of 20 (Everything Wicked Fans Want )
BONUS: +3 Bonus Feeds

Exxxotica Chicago 2011

So I decided to make a quick 3-day trip up to Chicago to check out its first Exxxotica show. I had been to the Miami show the previous year, and it seemed about the same size in terms of number of exhibitors. Numerous porn girls that had signed for last year’s Chicago Exxxtacy show commented Exxxotica was much bigger in terms of booths and girls.

Stage shows were fun with a heavy bdsm theme. My favourite one was the Pretty Things Peep Show which featured Stoya performing her aerial tricks for the first time.

aerial Stoya

Click on Stoya for the photos from Exxxotica.

The amount of fans that attended the Chicago show was impressive. One promotion that contributed to this turnout was that women got to attend Friday for free. This resulted in the most gender balanced porn convention day that I have ever attended. Many girlfriends and wives attended with their men and I saw groups of women browsing with no men in sight. They seemed just as elated to meet the female porn stars and buy their products as the typical fanboy. Maybe even more so since they did not have to pay the entry fee.

However, this female balance did not translate to the parties. Only people who had bought vip tickets to the show were allowed into the Friday after-party or they had to pay $20 at the door. You see where this is going. Since the women did not have to buy tickets for the show, they would have had to pay 20 dollars to get in. You had a ballroom full of sausage absent-mindedly staring at go-go dancers. Mr. Pete and I were absent-mindedly helping ourselves to a grey goose bottle in the vip section until the show organisers objected that it was their hooch. Oops. I didn’t even bother checking out the Saturday after-party but heard the same complaint from people that had attended.

About the only other disappointment about the show was the lack of nudity compared to last year’s Exxxtacy show. Chicago seemed lax about the nudity during that show but every girl this year told me they couldn’t flash people because they were fearful of some thousand dollar fine due to a warning from the show’s organizers. Is that the going rate for indecent exposure in Illinois?

Americans Watch Porn At Work?!

A new Harris Interactive Poll shows that 3% of Americans watch porn AT WORK!

(Cue the dramatic music!)

The Young Turks have this to offer:

Jimmy Dore proves that comedy is funniest when it’s true.

“… these young gentleman: we grew up on different porn. I grew up in the eighties, and now they can watch porn anywhere, and no one even knows. But in the 80s, you couldn’t do that. It was a big deal. First you had to secure the area, lock a few doors… you couldn’t watch it on a computer… we had to watch it on a TV and a VCR. TWO MACHINES! We needed two machines to watch porn! A VHS tape! … Modern porn is too gross. The guys who made it in the 80s cared about the women! Sometimes you’d see the whole woman! Now, it’s like “Is that a vagina or an arm pit? Is that an intestine? I like to look at a woman’s ass, I don’t need to see where it makes the shit.”

Word.

Thanks to JLB for the link!

Welcome Review Site: Videotramp

Longtime IAFD editor, JLB has bundled all his reviews together and put them up on a new website, videotramp.com and we’re happy to link those reviews to the title listings in the IAFD.

Also on the review desk at Videotramp is Berry, a long time associate of JLB’s and the webmaster for the site.  They’re longtime collectors of adult and b-indie movies, partially for the thrill of the hunt and partially because they’re “freaks.”

VideoTramp has a no screener policy, which they’d like to claim is in order to maintain the highest integrity possible; but it’s really because they’re based in Canada and it’s harder to get screeners up there in the Great White North.  “We review what we want, when we want.”

Each review has a bunch of screenshots with it mostly softcore to keep the 2257 monitors comfortable. The reviews are succinct because “nobody wants to read a 3,000 word essay on an adult movie, us included.”  (Phew, mine was only 1300 words.)

You can see JLB’s reviews in the IAFD’s reviewer search.